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Donald Trump Not Running For President
May 16, 2011 I hope he wasn't your early pick. Donald Trump has officially backed out of becoming the President of the United States position.
National News
National News
May 16, 2011
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Mom Gives 8-Year-Old Daughter Botox Injections [VIDEO]
May 12, 2011 Kerry Campbell took herself out of the race for Mother of the Year Thursday when she revealed to 'Good Morning America' that she gives her 8-year-old pageant queen daughter Botox injections.
Campbell, a part-time aesthetician, told 'GMA's' Lara Spencer that she does the injections herself, and claims the reason she started giving them was due to pressure from other pageant moms.
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New Words Added To Scrabble
May 12, 2011 Are you desperately searching for that perfect triple-word score? Well, Scrabble is here to help.
The Scotsman is reporting that Scrabble has added everything from slang to social media to the Collins Official Scrabble Words book.
Yep, that means you can now play such words as "grrl," "thang," "innit," "Facebook" and "MySpace." (We're totally blaming AT&T for this one.)
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McDonald’s to Receive $1 Billion Makeover
May 10, 2011 The interior decor at your local Golden Arches leaves a lot to be desired, but that won't be the case for much longer.
The fast food giant plans to drop roughly $1 billion to re-decorate its restaurants, replacing red-and-yellow plastic with faux-leather and harsh overhead lighting with something that creates more ambiance.
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Skype Is Worth 8.5 Billion To Microsoft
May 10, 2011 Microsoft is set to shell out big bucks - a whopping $8.5 billion - to buy Skype Global, the NY Times is reporting.
According to the report, the deal will allow Microsoft to leverage Skype, which last year had 207 billion minutes of voice and video conversations, on platforms including Xbox 360, Kinect and Outlook.
"Skype is a phenomenal service that is loved by millions of people around the world. Together we will create the future of real-time communications so people can easily stay connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues anywhere in the world," Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, said Tuesday in a statement.
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Best Buy Employee Tackles Thief, Gets Fired
May 4, 2011 Roger Kline may have saved the day when a thief tried to make good with over $1,600 in merchandise, but his instinct to tackle the sticky-fingered customer didn't save his job. In fact, it got him fired.
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Marijuana Found Growing Outside Osama bin Laden’s Compound
May 4, 2011 For those wondering what recently killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden did to pass the time at his secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, we may have an answer.
According to the NY Daily News (via CNN), small crops of marijuana were found in the deserted lots on the compound's perimeter.
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Deaf Men Stabbed After Sign Language Mistaken for Gang Signs
May 3, 2011 A group of hearing-impaired friends were reportedly stabbed in a bar after another bar patron mistook their sign language for gang signs. The group was at Ocean's Eleven Lounge in Florida celebrating a friend's birthday when the incident occurred.
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L.A. Traffic Officers Appear in Porn Movie While On Duty
May 3, 2011 Two Los Angeles traffic enforcement officers appeared in a porn movie in which they fondled and spanked a naked actress and let her perform a solo sex act in one of their official vehicles.
The kicker: It all happened while they were on duty.
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Comedians React to Osama bin Laden’s Death on Twitter
May 2, 2011 We all know that Twitter has become a very important resource for worldwide breaking news, and the information that is shared has, in a lot of ways, helped to change the world.
Last night, thousands of people (if not millions) took to their Twitter accounts to report on and gather information about the death of Osama bin Laden.
But there's a whole other side to the social media site that goes on simultaneously as the important facts are being passed around: the humorous and satirical take on the subject by the thousands of comedians and writers who are on Twitter. We searched around and highlighted a cross section of how comedians reacted to the news of bin Laden's death.
Read 23 humorous tweets (in no particular order) after the jump.
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Sports Fans Cheer bin Laden’s Death With “U-S-A!” Chant [VIDEO]
May 2, 2011 Most people watching 'ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball' game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets knew that the reason the crowd suddenly erupted into cheers was because they had just found out Osama Bin Laden had been shot dead by American special forces.
The players on the field, however, had no idea. "I really didn't understand what was going on there for a minute," said Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee, whose team wound up losing 2 to 1 in 14 innings.
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Newspaper Front Pages Around the US Cover Bin Laden’s Death
May 2, 2011 Newspapers across the country reacted to the demise of Osama bin Laden on Monday morning, with front page headlines from the triumphant (Newark's "Star-Ledger" quotes Obama's speech with "'Justice Has Been Done'") to the minimal ("Dead," the "Boston Herald" and many others plainly state) to the profane ("